Gaffes Made by Global Heads of State Believing They're in Private

Recently, Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto believed he was a confidential discussion with US President Donald Trump at the Gaza peace summit in Egypt.

Instead, a hot-mic incident revealed Prabowo requesting Trump to arrange a call with his son Eric, both of whom hold positions at the family business.

It represented only one in a string of missteps committed by international figures when they assume no one can hear them.

Here are five other noteworthy blunders:

Transplant Procedures and Everlasting Life

At a military parade in Beijing this September, China's leader Xi Jinping and Russia's head Vladimir Putin were recorded talking about organ transplants as a method for prolonging life.

"Vital organs can be continuously replaced. The more you extend your life, the more youthful you get, and you can even reach eternal life," the Russian translator was recorded stating.

Xi, who was off camera, responded in Chinese: "Some predict that in this century humans may live to 150 years old."

Dialogue recorded from Chinese president Xi Jinping and Moscow's head Vladimir Putin

'Water Lapping at Your Door'

Former Australian immigration minister Peter Dutton faced criticism in 2015 when he made light about the plight of people in the Pacific facing ocean encroachment.

Dutton was conversing with then-prime minister Tony Abbott, who had recently come back from environmental talks with regional heads in Port Moresby.

Noting that a meeting about refugees was running on "Cape York time", Abbott responded: "There was a bit of that up in Port Moresby."

Dutton added: "Schedules become irrelevant when you're about to have the ocean reaching your home."

The comments sparked outrage from regional nations and climate activists, while the opposition Labor party demanded Dutton to issue an apology.

Peter Dutton overheard joking with Tony Abbott about coastal flooding

'Bigoted Woman'

While serving as UK PM Gordon Brown was on the trail in 2010, he faced a constituent who questioned him on migration and the economic situation.

Still wired up to a broadcast microphone when he entered the car, Brown was heard saying: "That went terribly – they should not have placed me with that woman. Who thought of that? Ridiculous."

Asked what she had said, he replied: "Everything, she was just a bigoted woman."

This incident dominated headlines for an extended period and Brown ultimately lost the political race.

'I Cannot Bear Netanyahu. He's a Liar.'

Former US president Barack Obama was in discussion at the G20 summit in Cannes in 2011 with France's leader Nicolas Sarkozy when their remarks about Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu were picked up by a active recording device.

Sarkozy stated: "I cannot bear Netanyahu. He's a liar."

According to a account from a French interpreter cited by Reuters, Obama replied: "You've had enough but I must work with him more often than you."

'Major League ***hole'

A vintage hot-mic moment from former White House hopeful George W. Bush happened as he made a disparaging remark about a journalist from The New York Times.

The GOP candidate was unaware that a recording device was active when he leaned over to Dick Cheney at a political event and said, "There's Adam Clymer, complete jerk from the New York Times."

Cheney responded: "Oh yeah, he is, definitely."

Bush at a Labour rally in 2000